For 2-2, what's the rule on the cards we can pick? If it were to be all different then it wouldn't work as some elements (Life and Time) have too many people.
I think Time and Life are only ones with this problem. If everyone does this part 2 (and that's a big if) then Time falls 1 card and Life 2 cards short. In this situation, the remaining card(s) will be taken from "other".
Luckily, Waynecore has seemed to have magically disappeared in the Time stream, so I guess Time is safe. >.>
I know this seems silly, but shouldn't the Ronin ('Master of Other', or whoever he is) be the one to do all of the 'Other' cards? I think that if Life gets overcrowded, they shouldn't be forced to give out strategies to a non-element that has barely any correlation to the one they're trying to be a master of. I'd personally suggest that if there aren't enough cards for the late comers, they should simply take whatever cards are left and make strategies for the remaining ones in a deck in relation to a false god.
...but that's my 2 cents. ^^;